Memphis, TN – Summer 2017 Law Student Internship – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
AkronLawJobs No. 8002 Overview: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world-class research hospital treating children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases and conducting research on those diseases.
About the internship/duties: Legal interns at St. Jude spend a summer immersed in a unique culture where basic, translational, and clinical research are all housed on the same campus in a robust hospital; where biochemists, computational biologists, geneticists, and statisticians routinely interact with medical and research specialists in infectious diseases, oncology, pharmacology, radiology, surgery, and hematology (including sickle cell disease). Interns will work with a number of lawyers, both in-house and (with supervision) outside counsel, on substantive projects in many aspects of the law – some of which will depend on the intern’s interests – including health law, business transactions, risk management, international law, intellectual property, commercial transactions, labor and employment, clinical trials, grants and contracts, and even shaping law and regulations at the State and Federal levels. As part of the intern experience, each intern will tour and learn about legal issues related to patient housing, clinics, Children’s GMP, and Environmental Health and Safety, and will have training in Export Control and HIPAA. Interns also have worked in depth with the Office of Technology Licensing, Managed Care, and Environmental Health and Safety. We take our mentoring obligations very seriously (and enjoy it!), so every assignment comes with plenty of context and follow-through opportunities for the interns, and client interaction is plentiful. Moreover, interns will find themselves routinely included in meetings of all types for educational purposes. Every past intern has given our program remarkably high scores, according to their respective law schools.
Please note: To prevent conflicts of interest, we do not accept students who have relatives working at St. Jude, except in extraordinary circumstances.
Please note: This is an unpaid internship. Please see Assistant Dean Alisa Benedict O’Brien in the Career Planning and Placement Center for ideas on funding this position.
Qualifications: 2L or part-time 3L.
How to apply: Please note your undergraduate, graduate (if applicable), and law school GPA’s in your resume. Please send your resume and cover letter to: lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu ADDRESSED TO Dr. McGehee Marsh, Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Services, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 280, Memphis, TN 38105 by February 9, 2017, for consideration.
It is crucial that the cover letter addresses why the applicant wishes to have an internship at St. Jude, the Intern’s expectations, and why the intern believes they “belong” here.
Deadline: February 9, 2017 (e-mailed to lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu)